These advancements are focused on enhancing the interoperability, scalability, and user experience of services that form the backbone of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem. Collectively, these developments demonstrate EOSC Beyond’s strong alignment with EOSC’s federated architecture vision. They lay the groundwork for broader service adoption, easier onboarding for providers, and more cohesive collaboration across national and thematic Nodes.
EOSC Core Services addressed in EOSC Beyond
- Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI): The AAI service enables federated authentication and secure access across EOSC services and resources. It provides a consistent user experience by integrating with users' home identities and supporting the harmonised release of identity and authorisation information.
- Accounting: The Accounting Service is a robust and scalable platform designed to streamline the collection, aggregation, and exchange of usage metrics across heterogeneous infrastructures, service providers, and projects. It facilitates reliable tracking of resource consumption, promotes interoperability, and supports accurate reporting and accountability across the ecosystem.
- Helpdesk: The EOSC Helpdesk provides a centralised support service for users across multiple communities and e-infrastructures.
- Messaging: The EOSC Messaging Service (EMS) is a real-time messaging platform that facilitates communication between independent applications by allowing users to send and receive messages using a Publish/Subscribe model over HTTP.
- Monitoring: The EOSC Monitoring Service provides insights into the availability and reliability of EOSC services across both the Core and Exchange layers.
- PID Service: The Persistent Identifiers (PID) Service provides a reliable infrastructure for managing and maintaining persistent identifiers using B2HANDLE technology.
- User Space: The User Space is the integrated environment where researchers access and interact with the full range of EOSC resources and services. It incorporates Front Office components that enable users to discover, request, and access services, analytical tools, data management solutions, storage, and computing resources across multiple research domains. Within this environment, the Discovery Hub provides advanced capabilities to search, organise, and execute a wide variety of EOSC resources, including publications, data, software, services, bundles, and training materials, supporting the configuration and management of customised research workflows. The User Space also serves as a platform for local, national, and international providers to showcase their offerings and facilitate access for a broad and diverse research community.
- Research Product Catalogue: The EOSC Research Product Catalogue is the federated catalogue that enables the discovery and access of research outputs made available through EOSC. It provides structured metadata describing datasets, software, publications, and other research products contributed by different EOSC Nodes and service providers, ensuring they can be easily found, accessed, and reused across the ecosystem.
- Service Catalogue: The EOSC Service Catalogue provides data and functionality to register, maintain, administer and share resources onboarded by various providers. It also serves as the point of reference for all EOSC Core components that add value to this information, making the data and services searchable and accessible through various tools for both researchers and end users.
- EOSC Integration Suite - The EOSC Integration Suite provides a set of tools designed to share and reuse software libraries (adapters) among research communities and technology providers, addressing common patterns in scientific applications.
- EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox - The EOSC Core Innovation Sandbox is a ‘test federator node’, a comprehensive testbed equipped with advanced automation tools designed for the testing and validation of EOSC services.
- EOSC Execution Framework - The EOSC Execution Framework provides an extendable suite of composability-based applications designed to enhance the deployment and accessibility of services within the EOSC ecosystem.
Timeline
5
February 2026
Final release of the next generation of the EOSC Core Services
6
March 2026
Final report on EOSC Core Architecture and Capabilities Report